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Comment Re:Not ground level, but not not too high (Score 4, Informative) 467

For example, if living in an apartment building I *feel* my chances of getting robbed are higher on the ground floor. I'm sure statistics prove me wrong but that's how I feel.

No, statistics would prove you right, which is why ground floor apartments have higher insurance costs. Considering the majority of burgalries are opportunistic, it's no great surprise.

Comment Re:See! (Score 1) 278

Yeah, but good luck finding a mobile data package with a decent data usage limit. In the UK at least the limits are stupidly low, even on the packages advertised as 'unlimited'. In some cases the 'unlimited' packages can have limits of 500MB/month and charge per the MB above that - and they get away with it because they told the Advertising Standards Authority that 500MB was more than any 'reasonable' person would use in a month.

Comment Re:Do you agree? (Score 1) 334

Where possible, inform the site owners of the reason the site is being blocked, and give them a right of appeal. Also, tell people they are visiting a blocked site and give them information on why it was blocked and what to do if they think it was blocked in error. That'd still allow sites to be 'legitimately' blocked where they violate the law, but hopefully prevent chilling effects of restricting free speech.

Do I get the points?

Comment Re:I'm pretty sure this is Terrorism. (Score 1) 334

Well, it certainly meets the definition of 'terrorism' in the UK, as defined by the Terrorism Act 2000. "'terrorism' means the use or threat of action where... the use or threat is designed to influence the government or to intimidate the public or a section of the public, and the use or threat is made for the purpose of advancing a political, religious or ideological cause. Action falls within this subsection if it... is designed seriously to interfere with or seriously to disrupt an electronic system"

Comment Re:Good luck ever seating a jury again! (Score 1) 288

Well actually, they've already done that in the UK, if a trial is too complicated and will go on for too long, the judge can hold the trial without a jury and just decide on the verdict himself. It's under Section 43 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003. Section 44 allows for trials without jury where the police can't afford to protect the jury from tampering/intimidation.

Comment Re:Great timing (Score 1) 360

If you're going to quote me, at least quote me all instead of selectively quoting. I said the majority of the CN Tower does not have usable floor space. That is, it doesn't have the 50% required to be recognised as a building by the CTBUH. It's basically just a big lift shaft with a few floors on the top.

Comment Re:Great timing (Score 1) 360

Except that the majority of the CN Tower does not have usable floor space, and therefore is not comparable to other skyscrapers. The general authority on these matters is the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, and they do not consider the CN Tower to be a building.

By your logic, the Warsaw Radio Mast, built in 1974 was taller than the CN Tower.

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